By faving doctrin, and from error lead 480 To know, and knowing worship God aright, 475 101 PARADISE REGAIN'D. BOO O K III. So fpake the Son of God, and Satan food A while as mute confounded what to say, What to reply, confuted and convinc’d Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift; At length collecting all his ferpent wiles, With foothing words renew'd, him thus accosts. I fee thou know'ft what is of use to know," What best to say canft fay, to do canft do; Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words 5 To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart 10 10. thy heart Contains of good, wife, juft, the perfect shape.] Milton, no doubt, by the word shape intended to exprefs the meaning of the Greek term idea, but in my opinion it does not at all come up to it, and seems rather harsh and inelegant. There are words in all languages, which cannot well be tranflated without lofing much of their beauty, and even fome of their meaning; of this fort I take the word idea to be. Tully renders it by the Contains word fpecies with as little fuccefs in my opinion as Milton has done here by his English shape. Thyer. Of good, wife, juft, the perfect shape. I fhould rather think it expreis'd from the perfecta forma honeftatis, and the forma ipfa honefti of Cicero. De Fin. II. 15. Habes undique expletam et perfectam, Torquate, formam honeftatis, &c. De Off. I. 5. Formam quidem ipfam, Marce fili, et tanquam faciem honefti vides; quæ, fi oculis cerneretur &c. And the more, because |